Examples included missing paint and rotting siding.

Hi Zak-Great question.It sounds like your credit union is offering you a Home Equity Line of Credit as they do not expect principal payments and your primary bank is offering you a Home Equity Loan.Personally, I don't like having to pay on an equity loan unless I use some of it and only pay on the part I use.Although, this is a personal decision for you.If you make investments that provide enough cashflow to pay the principal and interest to your primary bank on the equity loan it doesn't really matter to you as others are paying it.Another consideration is the amount of dry powder available to invest.

If you have been around for decades and saw the cycles you know what to look for in an investment.There are also syndicators that their God is money at all costs and they have big teams to feed so when their asset class dries up for deals they go putting together other asset class deals hoping who they partnered with will save the day because they need those going in fees to keep paying staff and living their lifestyle.My deals the pref is not super high for core plus but these are typically investment grade credit tenants with long term leases.

After the 2008 crash we did a lot of short sales and we got virtually all those deals through direct marketing with a few from bandit signs.When we moved out to KC, almost everything we bought were REOs listed on the MLS.When those dried up, we started getting a mix from wholesalers, a few hidden gems on the MLS and direct marketing.

Therefore you can make a cash on cash return higher than 6% on your investment, I would go ahead and use a portion of you investment cash - maybe 50%, but I would not use all of it in order to have some "dry powder" for later.

Were any of the stairs rotting?

The bank of Jonathan is drying up. 

But if it feels like it's bleeding you dry and you are in a place to hold it to wait for either rental rates to go up or for the appreciation to build a bit more, then yes, I'd go ahead and sell.

Get a drying rack.  

Tl;dr: I currently have three properties with Ohio Cashflow and just requested a fourth because I trust in the team and believe it is a great investment.I’m supposedly a unique investor for OCF because I actually live in the Toledo area as well.